MMW 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Huineng, Subitism, Taoism

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 12
• Professor: Alexander B Stewart

Document Summary

Rege(cid:374)ts for cao cao"s gra(cid:374)dso(cid:374) usurps the thro(cid:374)e a(cid:374)d fou(cid:374)ds ji(cid:374) dy(cid:374)asty (2(cid:1010)(cid:1009)-420) North falls to nomads: nomads found states known as 16 kingdoms jin disintegrates into northern and. Warlords patronize buddhism to legitimize power and unite subjects: become dependent on buddhism for their power. Hui yuan and others claim autonomy for buddhist monks: say that monks do not have to bow to king. Monks live in a spiritual realm, different from the worldly realm that kings reign in: recommend lay followers obey authority. Buddhism: values asceticism, did not look down upon merchants, unlike confucianism, egalitarian, reject family ties, metaphysical ideas of salvation, goal is to escape from this world, monasticism leaving family, self-cultivation, adopted by commoners, foreign religion. Confucianism: values order in this life, hierarchical, family ties govern all interactions, does(cid:374)"t dis(cid:272)uss super(cid:374)atural forces, goal of orderly life in this world, responsibility to family, obedience to family and emperor, favored by elites, native ideology.